urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-9d4eedf4-5803-495e-bef6-a04e48e82aedSocial Business User Experience blog - Tags - social Help us design the future of social business. The IBM Social Business user experience and documentation team uses this blog to tell you about our activities and information.12015-01-13T17:07:20-05:00IBM Connections - Blogsurn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-f194f431-8b86-43e6-be4f-78727ae6ca70Social dayVelda Bartekbartekva@us.ibm.com110000CW7MactiveComment Entriesapplication/atom+xml;type=entryLikes2012-11-14T10:17:56-05:002012-11-14T10:19:52-05:00<div>&nbsp;We are having a special event here at IBM Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.&nbsp; It's Social Day!</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>There are a number of activities going on for developers, testers, client support, and other technical specialists (including user experience designers!) to network and communicate the expertise that IBM has.<br><br>For the social novice, we can learn how to get more involved in social media internally and externally.&nbsp; There's a new internal social community chock full of resources to help us participate more effectively.&nbsp; There are podcasts, presentations, and mentors.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the past, before Twitter, Facebook, and blogs took over the social world, I was being social on developerWorks.&nbsp; developerWorks is one of IBM's oldest social communities that is focused on sharing information, how tos, and code snippets to developers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>In the early days of WebSphere Portal, Patrick McGowan and I shared information on designing portal themes with focus on the techniques that Patrick honed as a portal user interface designer.&nbsp; Going further back in time, I worked with other teammates sharing our discoveries while designing and coding UIs for PDAs (remember personal digital assistants?).&nbsp; Eeks! My 2001 article for designing for the Palm OS v3.5 is still there!&nbsp; I've also shared my expertise in remote user testing<a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-rmusts1/">.&nbsp; I still make use of the best practices that I described in the two articles&nbsp; (</a><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-rmusts1/">part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-rmusts2/index.html">part 2</a>).<br></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Over the years, developerWorks has been redesigned to focus on the
latest developer trends.&nbsp; It's moved from a focus on C++, XML, and CSS
to today's focus on Linux, Python, and Php.&nbsp; One of the constants has been the <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/">Lotus zone</a>.&nbsp; I hope you've stopped by to read and watch the Key developer topics, dropped into one of the forums, or visited one of the product wikis.&nbsp; You'll also find the <a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/insidelotusblog.nsf">Inside Mobile Design and User Experience blog</a> where teammate Chris Reckling.</div><div>&nbsp; </div><div>Are you being social?&nbsp; Does your organization have social days? <br></div>
&nbsp;We are having a special event here at IBM Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.&nbsp; It's Social Day! &nbsp; There are a number of activities going on for developers, testers, client support, and other technical specialists (including user experience...011489urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-9d4eedf4-5803-495e-bef6-a04e48e82aedSocial Business User Experience blog2015-01-13T17:07:20-05:00